Field Applications Engineering

Lattice Semiconductor • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

There is energy here…energy you can feel crackling at any of our international locations. It’s an energy generated by enthusiasm for our work, for our teams, for our results, and for our customers. Lattice is a worldwide community of engineers, designers, and manufacturing operations specialists in partnership with world-class sales, marketing, and support teams, who are developing programmable logic solutions that are changing the industry. Our focus is on R&D, product innovation, and customer service, and to that focus, we bring total commitment and a keenly sharp competitive personality. Energy feeds on energy. If you flourish in a fast paced, results-oriented environment, if you want to achieve individual success within a “team first” organization, and if you believe you can contribute and succeed in a demanding yet collegial atmosphere, then Lattice may well be just what you’re looking for.
We are looking for a Field Applications Engineer (FAE) responsible for Lattice customers in the <location>. Responsible for giving product presentations to the customer describing how Lattice products provide the optimum solution to their application. During customer's product design, responsible for design assistance including onsite visits to review designs, examine customer problems and provide suggestions on optimal ways to use Lattice products. Manage relationships between Lattice and customers by establishing relationships with key individuals at accounts. Identify and develop new opportunities within accounts. Give product demonstrations and execute benchmarks to show product capabilities and ease of use. Understand competitor's strengths and weaknesses relative to the appropriate technical strategy. Communicate strategies to appropriate field and factory personnel to obtain required support and coordination. Assist the customer throughout the development cycle to ensure successful completion of the product. Provide timely feedback to the factory on product and strategy issues to ensure Lattice can respond to and/or anticipating changes needed to maintain success. Requires thorough knowledge of business practices and procedures to perform non repetitive, analytical work. Provide solutions to a wide range of difficult problems.
As an FAE in the Lattice sales organization, you will be responsible for assisting customers with the design and implementation of their product requirements utilizing our FPGA based solutions.
By understanding our customer's system requirements and guiding them in the use of our products and development flow, we enable our customers to bring competitive products to market. This role will have a significant engineering component along with interpersonal skills required to interface with a broad range of customers. We value technical excellence, customer focus, integrity, and, most of all, teamwork.
While this role will primarily be supporting our customers in the Bay area, a successful candidate must have the availability to travel periodically.

Requirements

• 7+ years’ experience in FPGA and/or ASIC design, including experience designing with VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog or other HLD development tools (Radiant, Diamond, Quartus, Vivado, etc.).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong presentations skills, and the ability to work with multiple groups and projects
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a customer support or customer facing role a plus

Responsibilities

• Giving product presentations to the customer describing how Lattice products provide the optimum solution to their application.
• Design assistance including onsite visits to review designs, examine customer problems and provide suggestions on optimal ways to use Lattice products.
• Manage relationships between Lattice and customers by establishing relationships with key individuals at accounts.
• Identify and develop new opportunities within accounts.
• Give product demonstrations and execute benchmarks to show product capabilities and ease of use.
• Understand competitor's strengths and weaknesses relative to the appropriate technical strategy.
• Communicate strategies to appropriate field and factory personnel to obtain required support and coordination.
• Assist the customer throughout the development cycle to ensure successful completion of the product.
• Provide timely feedback to the factory on product and strategy issues to ensure Lattice can respond to and/or anticipating changes needed to maintain success.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees